Post your Desktop I - Mess accepted

[Bloodfire]

Here are the specs:
-Intel i5 3.2 Ghz
-8 GB DDR3 Physical Memory
-1 TB HDD
-ATI Radeon HD 5700 series 1 GB dedicated
-Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium

It's a pre-built ASUS tower w/ a total of 10 USB ports, various card readers(not sure which) and built in HDMI port and the all the other basics. For some reason this tower came with 32 MB of dedicated memory, which I still never understand why anyone would pre-build a Windows 7 PC with 32 MB Vram and have the gall to integrate a HDMI port on the board, but that's my opinion.

The Moniter is a Dell 20" widescreen HD 1600x900 max resolution. Keyboard/Mouse is a basic wireless logitech, and a PS3 usb headset for sound (lol). For shits and giggles I went and bought Crysis and tried to play it at Very High settings 8x anti-aliasing full screen and got about 8-10 FPS , at medium settings w/ no AA full screen I get 30-40 FPS average.

If you have any ideas on what card I need to run Crysis at Very High please tell me... I thought 1 GB vram would have done it

Spent about 1k on the whole system minus the keyboard and mouse

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...nosis/back.jpg http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...osis/Front.jpg http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...nosis/Side.jpg http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/Internal.jpg http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...is/Moniter.jpg http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m.../Key-mouse.jpg

[Caiyuo]

Your desk has nice lighting, Mayareira, mine feels so sterile in comparison.

[Bloodfire]

double post, delete please

[Omniyoji]

Your desk has nice lighting, Mayareira, mine feels so sterile in comparison.

yeah, that's actually a nice shot of her laptop. I like how I see cold on the left/warm on the right and a nice color variation on her screen. Very artsy~

[Mayareira]

Natural light is awesome, my desk always has to be somewhere near a window. Room doesn't get direct sunlight too so...its pretty neat.

Thanks for the comments

[Furtwangler]

I'm still in college for another 2 weeks, so here's my dorm setup. my roommate and I made kind of an L shape with our beds, with my desk being on the lower half next to my bed, and his bed is lofted. excuse the clutter on my desk, i move things around as necessary. 2 23" Acer 233h screens, built the desktop about 3 months ago. I have all of it hooked up to an old yamaha reciever, which my roomates laptop is also hooked up to, and the receiver feeds out to 2 old tower speakers on the other side of the room (not taking a picture of those, roomates side is a real mess lol), and my Logitech system, which is partially shown on my desk, and the floor. 360 Hdmi's into one of the monitors. bout all I can think of for now.


http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/231/img03951460252.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3...3961456732.jpg
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/242...1421462742.jpg

[Ratatapa]

You seem to like obama lol

[The_OG_Nelta]

You seem to like obama lol

No earthly idea if this is a woosh or not.

[Ratatapa]

hehe

[Omniyoji]

LMAO the Carlton pic was the first thing I noticed!

+points for you!

[Furtwangler]

our dorm hall is named Gibson hall, so at the beginning of the year went on rants putting carltons face on stuff, including that.

[Kryssan]

So yeah. Swapped out the 320s in BackupBox and put in the 1.5s I was saving for DataBox. Going to buy a suite of 6 2TB instead, and it was a shame to let the 1.5s go to waste just laying around. Now BackupBox has more than enough room to do everything except backup the media library. DataBox should have the room for that though, and as an added bonus because of the small size of that NAS case I could even take it with me on trips home.


Anyway, pictures, and a comparison:

Spoiler: show

http://www.aethernavale.net/Media/images/tv.jpg

http://www.aethernavale.net/Media/images/tvcamera.JPG

Two different pictures of the same thing taken one day apart, the first with my cellphone and the second with my camera. The camera I've had for almost as long as the TV. No flash, same lighting, same with the phone. The camera is 5.1 Megapixel, the phone is 8 Megapixel. And yet, ye' olde camera still outperforms. Jack of all trades makes thee master of none. For comparison's sake, my (new) phone is a HTC Droid Incredible, and my camera is a 5 year old Olympus C-5500 Sport Zoom digital camera. Isn't technology supposed to make things better? Heh.


At any rate, here's hoping that we start seeing some better mass storage devices here soon, it is too expensive for these large raids.

[DAKPluto]

Because megapixels ≠ better. Only a "potential" in quality. You could have a camera that takes 200MP pictures, but it still using a tiny shitty lens, it's still gonna be a shitty picture.

High Quality lens will always >>>>>>>>> MP.

[Blabj]

Ditto the above, with the addition of ISO is more of a bigger deal nowadays than megapixels. Being able to shoot an acceptably clean frame at ISO 400 is great, that extra stop of light can be really useful when you're shooting in the shade, for example.

Going back to the server stuff again, I'm seriously throwing around the idea of building one now with my existing older PC (Intel Q6600 G0, 4GB Ram blah blah) - does anyone know if a Windows computer can have the same functionality as a Mac using "Target Disk Mode". Basically where the computer becomes a giant mass storage device that other computers connected to it via Firewire or USB can have full read and write access to directly.

My plan is to use the computer as an extension of my Macbook Pro, connecting it up via Gigabit Ethernet for general household streaming and file sharing, but also with the addition of Firewire for fast read and write access for copying tonnes of images and videos quickly (I edit videos using Final Cut Pro, so the Firewire connectivity is an absolute necessity.)

I'm wondering if it'd be easier to install OS X in a Hackintosh configuration, but then you run into problems with support for SATA Raid cards and managing RAID5 builds efficiently...

I guess this is why Drobos are so expensive...

[Kryssan]

Because megapixels ≠ better. Only a "potential" in quality. You could have a camera that takes 200MP pictures, but it still using a tiny shitty lens, it's still gonna be a shitty picture.

High Quality lens will always >>>>>>>>> MP.

Ditto the above, with the addition of ISO is more of a bigger deal nowadays than megapixels. Being able to shoot an acceptably clean frame at ISO 400 is great, that extra stop of light can be really useful when you're shooting in the shade, for example.

I was never trying to argue that, merely that a camera 5 years newer than another camera - despite changes/upgrades to the technology - still cannot perform better. My digital camera is by no means some really nice camera like you would use for some of the pictures talked about in the General Discussion thread, it was just a rather 'decent' camera at the time I bought it. Basically a side rant on storage technology that I was talking about in the post, since we're still limited to 2TB drives with most end users using operating systems that can't natively support higher capacity. The only way to get more is to add much more, which statistically raises failure rate and adds cost.

Going back to the server stuff again, I'm seriously throwing around the idea of building one now with my existing older PC (Intel Q6600 G0, 4GB Ram blah blah) - does anyone know if a Windows computer can have the same functionality as a Mac using "Target Disk Mode". Basically where the computer becomes a giant mass storage device that other computers connected to it via Firewire or USB can have full read and write access to directly.

My plan is to use the computer as an extension of my Macbook Pro, connecting it up via Gigabit Ethernet for general household streaming and file sharing, but also with the addition of Firewire for fast read and write access for copying tonnes of images and videos quickly (I edit videos using Final Cut Pro, so the Firewire connectivity is an absolute necessity.)

I'm wondering if it'd be easier to install OS X in a Hackintosh configuration, but then you run into problems with support for SATA Raid cards and managing RAID5 builds efficiently...

I guess this is why Drobos are so expensive...

I'm not sure about doing that with USB, but you could always transfer files between two computers using firewire. I guess I don't get your question? I'm not a Mac user, so that could be my confusion - based on what I just read about Target Disk Mode, I know of no way to make a Windows computer just be something you can attach that way, but setting up firewire links between two computers only takes a couple of minutes and you would be able to set file permissions to give either computer the ability to modify as necessary. Not going to be as simple as just plugging it in and going, but not difficult or time consuming either.

[mootsfox]

Playing around with different audio stuff...

Left:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1274061589


Bed (camera bags)
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1274061588


Right:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1274061587

[kareface]

New array is finally setup:

http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/newdrives.jpg



Main file server:
http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/array1.jpg
http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/server1.jpg



Secondary:
http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/array2.jpg
http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/server2.jpg



Don't mind the wires in the second one, I cleaned them up a lot after I was finished with the transfer of content to the new array. My poor network cards..

http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/transfer.png

[The_OG_Nelta]

Spoiler: show

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...s/DSC02263.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...s/DSC02262.jpg

Messy as hell

[Kryssan]

Don't mind the wires in the second one, I cleaned them up a lot after I was finished with the transfer of content to the new array. My poor network cards..

http://uwtechguy.com/mini/FS/transfer.png

Fiber backlane that already. What good are those controllers if the network is bottlenecked? It isn't that expensive.

[SaviorSelf]

Cleaned up and took some shots for Otacool 3. The highlight is...

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7290/0382v.jpg